Chapter 28: First update: Artificial hatching of chickens

After eating and drinking his fill, Ye Yu returned home, cutting some thatch and chopping a lot of firewood to fill up his backpack which was mostly empty. He was extremely tired.

The most troublesome thing about firewood is not chopping and cutting it, but drying it. There is definitely no such worry in summer, but the problem is that it is already autumn now, and chopping and drying it early is also for this year's cold winter.

If it really doesn't work, try again and exchange firewood with grandma's family. She sees that they have a lot of firewood.

When we returned to the educated youth point, the other three had already returned. They were covered in mud and looked listless. They were eating, but they didn't enjoy the food very much.

Make someone wish they could take his place.

Han Jing handed over the things he'd helped buy in town and said, "The salt is at the bottom. There's no meat, no offal, no chicken, and no rice. The limit is two packets of flour, and we bought three servings for you, just as you asked. The sugar coupons you gave us are all gone, so here are the remaining coupons and money. I almost forgot, but the supply and marketing cooperative happened to have fish today, and you don't need coupons to buy them. We bought four, one for each of us. They're hanging there with straw ropes."

"Thanks, that's a great help!" Ye Yu took the things and sorted them out along with the food and vegetables in the backpack. He left the kitchen, took out the fish, looked up at them and asked, "How about I help you clean it?"

The four fish were not the salted or smoked fish she had imagined, but fresh carp. They looked like they were wild locally. They were not big, about two to three pounds. They had been bumpy all the way and were dead by now. If they were not further processed, they would probably stink tomorrow.

With simple processing and the current low temperature weather, it should be able to be kept until tomorrow morning or noon.

Han Jing knew that Ye Yu was so enthusiastic because of the food. The journey was indeed hard, even harder than the day when he came back with the team leader. Only then did they realize that the team leader and his team had actually helped a lot invisibly.

He thought about it and nodded: "Thank you for your help."

Xu Fei also thanked him while chewing on a multi-grain cake. Hua Feifei was still immersed in her own thoughts, chewing on the corn intermittently, and it was obvious that she didn't hear the sounds around her at all.

Ye Yu couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong? It looks like the sky is falling?"

This girl had a low mood a few days ago, but she was still full of energy. Now she can be described as lifeless, which is not a good adjective.

Han Jing glanced at Hua Feifei and whispered, "Not long after she sent the telegram, her family returned. They just told her to take good care of herself and not to worry about home. After receiving her address, they sent her two bags of things. It might take ten or twenty days for them to arrive here, so she remembered to pick them up then."

This telegram contains quite a lot of content.

Nowadays, the price of telegrams is calculated by the word. Even if the description of the telegram is briefer than what Han Jing wrote, the content is still not less, so it is probably more than 10 yuan. It can be seen here that Hua Feifei's family conditions are indeed good, but it can also be heard that her family was reluctant but firmly rejected her.

Hua Feifei was not only desperate that she had to go back to work tomorrow, but also felt that it might always be like this in the future. What made her even more desperate was that the family she had relied on since she was a child would no longer be her support. It was hard to say which of these two things was more terrifying.

Judging from the performance, it is more due to the latter.

Xu Fei said vaguely, "It's very chaotic out there. Everywhere they go, they're trying to break down old culture and customs. The better off people are, the more careful they have to be."

His family was poor but of good origin, but his neighbor who was also his high school teacher almost suffered.

If there hadn't been a document issued a while ago to purge the Little Red Soldiers and investigate those evil bastards, several high school teachers would have been pulled out and criticized. It's already very difficult to live a peaceful life these days.

"My grandpa, my parents, and I all told me to contact my family less," Han Jing nodded with lingering fear, and then sighed, "Oh, what's going on?"

When they arrived in the town, they found out that Hua Feifei was not the only one who wanted to go home. Other educated youth also wanted to go home, but at the moment, there was little hope, at least in the near future.

Moreover, the commune leaders saw that they were not as enthusiastic as they were in the previous two days, because some educated youth had already caused trouble in the commune near Pingquan Town, and some even fought with villagers. The residents of the town were now talking about the educated youth.

It is obvious to the naked eye that the next batch of educated youth who go to the countryside, or even in the future, will not be as welcome as they are.

Ye Yu:

"Did they win?"

Han Jing and Xu Fei: "What?"

"Ahem, ahem, nothing." A strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake. Ye Yu could predict without even thinking about it that basically 90% of the locals would win. If they offended the locals, the future of these educated youths would surely be difficult. They are still too young. But what's wrong with being young? I just hope they can overcome the difficulties.

"Since we can't leave, we should adapt to the environment as soon as possible. Survival of the fittest," Ye Yu patted their shoulders. "This sentence seems to come from the Chinese translation of a foreign book. If it's my friend, please ignore it. Thank you!"

Buddy Han Jing and buddy Xu Fei: ...This is definitely the first time for us to be buddies with female comrades.

Ye Yu had already taken four fish to deal with them.

I saw one hand grabbing the fish's tail and the other hand picking up a kitchen knife, scraping off the scales with a few brushes. Then he took out the internal organs from the fish's belly and peeled them off cleanly. His technique was very skillful.

It was really fast, as if if it was any slower, the fish would have gone into her stomach.

After all, Ye Yu is not unable to eat a fish now. She can stuff these four fish into her stomach.

But today she was rarely full, and it would be a waste to eat the fish like this. It would be better to make a dish to go with the multi-grain cakes. Unfortunately, rice is not available in the northern town now. She can finish seven or eight bowls of fish soup with white rice.

By the time Hua Feifei woke up from her self-pity, the four fish had already been cleaned and Ye Yu had finished taking a bath in the small bathroom separated by a straw mat.

Hua Feifei looked at Han Jing and Xu Fei, who were worried about her, and scratched her face embarrassedly: "I'll wash the pot, and give me your lunch boxes. You guys go wash up first. I really want to trouble you to accompany me on this trip today."

"Nothing, just helping each other."

"If we hadn't gone to town, we wouldn't have been able to add these things, and we could have gotten a lot of useful information."

While the three educated youth were exchanging pleasantries, Ye Yu had already come out of the bathroom.

Her hair was still wet. Since her hair was short, she was too lazy to wipe it with cotton cloth, so she just shook her head like cats and dogs, and the water droplets flew far away.

“Rude.”

Hua Feifei snorted.

"...It's actually quite fun, and I like it this way too." Han Jing laughed.

Hua Feifei disagreed: "You are stinky men, but we are girls."

"It didn't fly onto you," Ye Yu reached out and touched it, feeling that he had done quite a bit, and continued, "Gentle and considerate, straightforward and open-minded, tough and brave, cute and lazy pig girl, comfortable and chic fairy, different types of girls all have their own unique charm, they are not all the same."

Even Hua Feifei had to admit that what he said made sense. Xu Fei's eyes lit up and he stared at it as if he saw a bone. He was a normal person in normal times, but he was obsessed with all kinds of literature and had always been obsessed with words.

only--

"What's a Piggy Girl?"

Hua Feifei was caught in a cycle of confusion: ...did I hear that word correctly? She wasn't talking about me, was she?

It can only be said that the information explosion in the future has been delivering a lot of things to people. Ye Yu, who accidentally made a slip of the tongue again, confirmed that his hair could not be thrown into the water, waved his hand, turned and left.

Seeing that Ye Yu didn't go back to her own room, but instead walked towards the empty east room where the male educated youth lived, Hua Feifei was puzzled: "Has Ye Yu changed her mind and doesn't want to live in that shabby west room with no kang and no windows?"

"Um, no, Ye Yu didn't plan to move," Han Jing explained. "She wanted to use the warm kang in this empty house to artificially incubate eggs. You nodded when I mentioned it just now."

I just didn't listen and clicked blindly.

"Artificial hatching?" This involved Hua Feifei's blind spot, but she was quite interested in eggs and chickens and wanted to eat them, but she didn't think they could eat Ye Yu's chickens, even though the quota for raising chickens actually belonged to the three of them.

Ye Yu had no idea that Hua Feifei was also greedy, so he went to the east room and started to set up the chicken coop.

The reason why she chose to try artificial incubation was because there was a spare room in the educated youth site. The room was vacant and had a kang, so she could borrow it temporarily.

At most it would just be a waste of some thatch and firewood.

These are not a problem for Ye Yu. He can even use this as an excuse to go to the mountains in the future, or use it as an excuse when he meets villagers on the way up or down the mountain.

Kill two birds with one stone.

After the chicks are hatched and grown to half-grown, move them to the customized chicken coop and nest, and then you can sit back and wait to eat the chicken and eggs, right?

If we clean this room, there will probably be many educated youth coming here in the future.

The temperature when incubating chicks is very important, usually between 35 and 40.5 degrees Celsius, and in most cases a little higher, but not too high.

Ordinary people cannot hatch chicks with their bodies. First, the incubation process takes more than ten to twenty days, and few people have the patience and time to do it. Second, the body surface temperature may not meet the requirements.

Ye Yu had no problem completing the second condition. The three eggs she picked out of the ten were carried in her arms all the way back. But there was a problem with the first condition. Under certain conditions, it was impossible for her to go without a bath for more than ten days.

I had to give up.

In fact, Ye Yu really has the desire to hatch chicken legs, no, little yellow chickens himself.

With regret on his face, he took out the warm egg from his arms, put it in a thatched nest on the kang at a temperature suitable for him, and covered it with old clothes. It couldn't be airtight, it needed a certain amount of ventilation.

Add two more basins of water to increase the humidity.

Ye Yu didn't go back to his room after building the nest. His hair was still wet, so he started practicing his supernatural powers in this room, once, twice, and three times.

After three times, she opened her eyes and gently touched the three lucky eggs happily.

They are such lucky stars!

Not only because they were hatched eggs picked out from a dozen eggs, but also in their company, Ye Yu's supernatural powers seemed to show signs of loosening, which also meant that her supernatural powers were about to break through and upgrade.